--- title: "xiào sǐ wǒ le" — "laughing me to death" — is the Chinese LOL; but l… — Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it sti… · tree and pragmatics description: "xiào sǐ wǒ le" — "laughing me to death" — is the Chinese LOL; but laughing at a friend who is really hurt is not funny in any language. Who acts: laughing. A sentence of the lesson «Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/) / [Friendly teasing — when it's fun and w…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/) / 4 # Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings, sentence 4 "xiào sǐ wǒ le" — "laughing me to death" — is the Chinese LOL; but laughing at a friend who is really hurt is not funny in any language. **Who acts:** laughing · **What happens:** laugh, be, hurt, not be · **To what, where:** same word, Chinese LOL, friend, language This is a sentence of the lesson «Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (laughing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:023-friendly-teasing.lesson:4 # text = "xiào sǐ wǒ le" — "laughing me to death" — is the Chinese LOL; but laughing at a friend who is really hurt is not funny in any language. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 023-friendly-teasing.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 xiào xiào X FW Foreign=Yes 3 flat:foreign _ _ 3 sǐ sǐ ADV GW Typo=Yes 18 advmod _ _ 4 wǒ wǒ ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 le le X NN _ 3 flat _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 7 — — NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 9 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 10 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:iobj 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 14 — - PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det 17 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 LOL lol NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=18:punct 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 21 laughing laugh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 csubj _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 27 really really ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl:relcl _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 34 det _ _ 34 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** *in a quote* | gerund | | the same word *= word* | | | | to death | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | | Chinese LOL | | | | sǐ *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **laugh** | gerund | | | | | | at a friend | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hurt** | present · passive | | a friend | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **not** **is** | present | laughing | | | any language | | funny *property* | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:chinese-street:023-friendly-teasing.lesson:4`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Friendly teasing — when it's fun and w…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/3/) - next →: [Friendly teasing — when it's fun and w…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/)